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Muzdalifah Hajj

After the sun sets at Arafah you can observe there is an intelligence of release and delight on everyone’s faces. People leave around hugging every other or if they are blokey blokes the high-quality old handclasp and then link of hands followed by the pressing of chests and a pat on the back.


The next thing on everybody’s minds is are we actually going to be sleeping on the floor in Muzdalifah? No, gravely are we? But the tents here in Arafah even although they don’t have atmosphere con and we are getting eaten living by mosquitoes are pleasant, can’t we just continue here?

Muzdalifah comes from the three arabic letters zul, la and fah which indicates “to come closer to something”. The next day we come closer to Allah’s house as we visit the grand mosque in Makkah. Amazing! Also, as mentioned before Arafah is outside the Har’am (holy boundary of Makkah) whilst Muzdalifah is within. The cause that we are taken exterior this border is that the Almighty wants us to be in the purest of state when reentering as we will have been forgiven all of our earlier sins. Amazing!

This is Hajj. This is the trip of a life!


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